A first edition of Leonardo by Robert Payne (Doubleday & Co., 1978) signed by Pamela Des Barres and inscribed "One artiste to another, I love you, Pamela."

Des Barres was a part of the early Los Angeles rock and roll scene and became friends with Frank Zappa and other musicians of the era. She was a member of the Zappa produced all-girl group, the GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously) and later wrote a best-selling memoir titled, I'm with The Band: Confessions of a Groupie. in the late 1970s she worked as a nanny for the Zappa family.